Eldon Garnet
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Eldon Garnet (born 1946) is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Toronto, Ontario and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. From 1975 to 1990 he was the editor of Impulse, a Canadian magazine of art and culture.{{cite book|title=Small Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nO_iAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=R.R. Bowker}}
Career
Garnet was born in Toronto, Ontario. His first solo show was in Toronto at A Space in 1975.{{cite web |last1=Garnet |first1=Eldon |title=Curriculum Vitae, Fallen Body: Eldon Garnet |website=library.gallery.ca |publisher=Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography|date = 1998|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tfallen+body%3A+eldon+garnet/tfallen+body+eldon+garnet/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=tfallen+body&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=- |access-date=5 May 2022}} Surveys of Garnet's sculptures and photographic work have been held at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the Amsterdam Center of Photography.{{Cite web |url=http://www.semiotexte.com/authors/garnet.html |title=Semiotexte : Eldon Garnet: Reading Brooke Shields: The Garden of Failure |access-date=2007-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007143558/http://www.semiotexte.com/authors/garnet.html |archive-date=2007-10-07 |url-status=dead }} His first novel, Reading Brooke Shields: The Garden of Failure was published by Semiotext(e), in 1995. Impulse Archaeology, a collection of articles from his years as editor at Impulse magazine (1975-1990), was released by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. His novel Lost Between the Edges was published by Semiotext(e), MIT.{{cite book |last1=Garnet |first1=Eldon |title=Lost Between The Edges |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMBNEAAAQBAJ |date=27 April 2007 |publisher=MIT Press, 2007 |isbn=9781584350422 |access-date=8 November 2022}} His recent novel, Categories of Disappearance is available from impulseb.com. He is also known for his public art works including Little Glenn and Memorial to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada located in Toronto. Eldon is represented by the Christopher Cutts Gallery Toronto and Torch Gallery, Amsterdam.
''Little Glenn''
Little Glenn is Garnet's human-size bronze statue of a young working-class boy pulling a {{convert|22|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} stone obelisk in a four-wheeled cart. On the obelisk are carved the words "To serve and protect", the motto of the police force of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Little Glenn is located on the intersection of Bay and Grenville, in front of the Metro Toronto Police Headquarters. It was erected in 1988 as a part of a composition of three human-size sculptures by Garnet surrounding the police station.{{cite web |title=Works |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeannot7/5309520098 |website=www.flickr.com |date=18 December 2010 |publisher=Flickr |access-date=24 December 2023}}
External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081220125457/http://www.eldongarnet.com/public.asp Eldon Garnet website]}}
External links
{{Archival records|title=Eldon Garnet Papers}}
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Category:Canadian male novelists
Category:Canadian photographers
Category:Novelists from Toronto
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